GeForce 306.02 Beta Drivers

leoncao · 28 Aug 2012 at 09:28

I have it on since yesterday. Working ok

Cosimo · 28 Aug 2012 at 10:15

Will take a look at these. Cheers

Devious · 28 Aug 2012 at 13:09

I went from 73fps to 65fps with these on GW2 stood in HoM on my own.

I went back to 304.79 and now that is 65fps too .. doh

deuse · 28 Aug 2012 at 13:52

Thanks for the heads up..Installed and running great.

kitch9 · 28 Aug 2012 at 15:09

Kaapstad said:
Just tried them.

About 4% slower in Unigine Heaven 3

About 1% slower in 3dmark11

Back to 301.42 for me.

Hope everyone else has better luck.

OK, what?

You have rolled back to an older driver because of that?

kedge · 28 Aug 2012 at 16:14

Cheers for the heads up and about time nvidia

, i see the official nvidia forums are stiil offline.

Kaapstad · 28 Aug 2012 at 18:19

kitch9 said:
OK, what?

You have rolled back to an older driver because of that?

I did not have any problems with the older drivers so yes.

If you were in my position would you not go for the drivers that give the best performance and minimum problems.

Dicehunter · 28 Aug 2012 at 20:47

BF3 seems smoother with these so its a win in my book

opethdisciple · 28 Aug 2012 at 22:23

DF1986 said:
BF3 seems smoother with these so its a win in my book

Yea noticed this too.

whyscotty · 28 Aug 2012 at 22:35

opethdisciple said:
Yea noticed this too.

So you recommend these if BF3 is one of your main games?

Rusty0611 · 29 Aug 2012 at 03:07

I got them as I've been on Guild Wars and they had improvements there. Seems all fine so far. Not got a before and after benchmark but the figures are in the right area.

whyscotty · 29 Aug 2012 at 12:49

Did you notice if your temps had improved?
As mine seem to have dropped between 2-3 deg on each card

whyscotty · 30 Aug 2012 at 01:01

Had a improvement in scores on both Unigine and 3D Mark
with a lower CPU overclock

OptimaLnrg · 30 Aug 2012 at 01:11

Been too busy to test these :/

AndyBurnes · 30 Aug 2012 at 16:31

GraveYard said:
what a joke no sli profile for guild wars 2...

FYI, there is a SLI profile, it was just undocumented: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-306-02-beta-drivers-released/

GraveYard · 30 Aug 2012 at 17:42

AndyBurnes said:
FYI, there is a SLI profile, it was just undocumented: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/nvidia-geforce-306-02-beta-drivers-released/

so how do you know there is a sli profile then?, i cant see no info on it at all...

well my 2 580s are all over the place using these drivers, scaling is bad use 40% each card some times, and as low as 40 fps...

is there a way to force sli to work?, i have prefer maximum performance on it NCP and the SLI tab says recommended SLI...

Reznor · 30 Aug 2012 at 17:48

i've had one driver stopped responding crash with these drivers in wow since the 5.0.4 update, hopefully just a one off!

GoogalyMoogaly · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:23

Wondering if I should install these now. How are people finding them in general?
I'm currently using the latest official release drivers.
I'm always a bit wary of BETA drivers.

opethdisciple · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:37

GoogalyMoogaly said:
Wondering if I should install these now. How are people finding them in general?
I'm currently using the latest official release drivers.
I'm always a bit wary of BETA drivers.

These are plenty fine. The betas have incrementally fixed a lot of problems for me.

So I would defo update.

I guess it depends on the games you play, and what card your using?

Snodge · 5 Sep 2012 at 21:42

Well these Drivers again have problems, Playing Smite it's a DX9 game only a 32Bit available however the game dips into 40 FPS when it gets hectic and the GPU usage doesn't move to keep 60 FPS